Ellison Medical Foundation

Three Yale scientists have received close to $1 million each from the Ellison Medical Foundation to pursue research into infectious disease. The three are among the 10 Senior Scholars in Global Infectious Disease announced in December.

Jorge E. Galán, Ph.D., D.V.M., the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbiology and chair of the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, will study the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni, one of the most common causes of gastrointestinal infection worldwide.

John R. Carlson, Ph.D., the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, will explore new approaches to the design of repellents and traps for disease-carrying insects.

Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., professor of immunobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will examine how immune system responses to one infectious agent affect the body’s defenses against concurrent infections.